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Has this ever happened before to anyone?

So my water broke at home around 5 this evening, so i went into the hospital and they agreed that my water had broken but because i had not started to dialate and my contractions were staying at 15 min. Apart they sent me home. Is this normal?

Hospitals can be such a pain about stuff like that! I went to the hospital in labor contracting 5-10 minutes apart. They checked me and said I was fine, to go home, and only came back if my contractions were 2 minutes apart or my water broke. I refused to leave and told them the contractions would be coming closer together in the next 30 minutes. They fought with me about it the whole 30 minutes until one of the nurses finally made me a deal. She said she would check me and if I was less than 3 cm I would have to leave, if not I could stay. Just before she checked me my contractions jumped to 3 minutes apart and I was dilated to 4cm! So in my opinion yes it is normal. I would go home walk around for a few hours to really kick start the contractions and once they get going good and strong go back in. GL!!